EXCLUSIVE: President Joe Biden’s ‘Climate Emergency’ Declaration Speech in Maui

UPDATE: Biden did not announce a “climate emergency” in Maui today, we dodged that bullet – for now.

Content of speech follows this introduction.

As you may know, after a week of terrible optics after the Maui wildfire, President Biden was excoriated in news and social media for sitting on the beach, on vacation and making “no comment” to reporters regarding the fire. Even though major news outlets like the LA Times are backing down on the idea that the fire was “climate caused,” and of course there’s no climate component whatsoever, much of the left is still using it as their talking point for why a “climate emergency” should be declared and putting pressure on the White House to do so.

The previous week, Biden had said he “practically declared a climate emergency” in response to hot temperatures in July and other factors, but was excoriated by the left for not actually declaring a climate emergency.

Then there has been the insane pronouncements of “global boiling” from the UN and the fact that their Secretary General has gone off the rails on the “climate emergency” issue. However, once again there appears to be no climate component to our hotter than normal summer, but instead seems have been caused by a lack of clouds, leading to increased sunlight reaching the ground according to this analysis by climatologist Dr. Judith Curry.

But, the left’s mantra has been “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Facts simply don’t matter to them.

Biden made a surprise announcement last week, cutting short his planned vacation in Lake Tahoe with an announcement he’d fly to Maui on Monday the 21st. Thus, it wouldn’t be a surprise to have Biden declare a “climate emergency” on Monday, with the burned ruins of Lahaina, Maui as the backdrop. The optics are perfect for him, and we know how much the White House is all about optics rather than substance.

Biden has already issued a preliminary statement here.

But it seems some Maui residents don’t want him there according to this article in Townhall:

Several residents expressed frustration to the New York Post, saying they would rather Biden not bother visiting after waiting so long to address the fires. 

“I don’t want him here,” Lahaina resident Jay Awan said. “He’s just coming to Maui to look good in front of the cameras.”

We’ll see what happens.

What follows is a likely speech (if Biden decides to do it), preemptively written by Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter.


Remarks by President Biden to Tackle the Climate Crisis by Declaring a Climate Emergency

Location: Lahaina, Maui

Date: Monday, August 21, 2023

Ladies and gentlemen, members of the press, and most importantly, the brave residents of Maui,

I stand before you today in the historic town of Lahaina, a place that was once the heart of Hawaiian culture, now tragically scarred by the inferno that nature unleashed. The tragic events here on Maui have not just affected a town or an island but have touched the very soul of our nation. The loss of at least 110 lives, homes destroyed, history erased, and memories turned to ash; these are not just headlines or statistics. These are the heart-wrenching stories of your neighbors, your friends, and your family.

Unusually dry conditions, primed by the unprecedented effects of climate change, laid the groundwork for the wildfires we see today. Our people were left scrambling into the ocean, a desperate act of survival, because land – the very ground beneath their feet – betrayed them in the most horrifying manner. And while the fires may have been contained for now, the broader flame, the burning issue of climate change, rages on unchecked.

For years, scientists and climate advocates have been sounding the alarm. The continuous extraction and use of fossil fuels is not just an environmental issue, but a ticking time bomb that threatens our way of life, our safety, and our very existence. Today, right here in Lahaina, we’ve seen the devastation that this ticking bomb can unleash.

Kaniela Ing, a voice of this community, poignantly stated, “My island is on fire.” This sentiment is echoed across the world, as wildfires choke regions from Canada to Australia, heatwaves suffocate places like Texas, and extreme flooding drowns parts of Europe. It’s not just an island or a town; it’s a planet that’s crying out for help.

It is easy to revert to partisanship in moments of crisis. But the flames that tore through Lahaina did not discriminate based on political affiliation. They consumed indiscriminately. And that’s the nature of the climate crisis we face today – it respects no borders, no parties, no ideologies.

I’ve taken steps to protect public lands, rejoined the Paris climate agreement, and have pushed for a progressive environmental agenda. But the scenes here, as economist Umair Haque pointed out, signify that “practically” declaring a climate emergency is not enough. I’m here today to declare that it’s time for action, not just words.

Today, I want to make a commitment to the people of Maui and to all Americans: I will declare a national climate emergency. We will marshal every resource, every piece of legislation, every ounce of innovation and spirit this nation possesses to fight the looming threat of climate change.

To the skeptics and deniers, I urge you to come here, to see the devastation, to look into the eyes of those who’ve lost everything. This is not a theoretical debate for future generations. This is here. This is now. We can no longer afford to be on the sidelines, we must act now.

I call on Congress, on leaders at every level, and on every American: let’s invest in clean energy, let’s reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and let’s make a future where our children won’t have to flee into the oceans to escape wildfires.

Thank you, and God bless the resilient people of Maui and the United States of America.

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Note: This entire post, including the posited speech and header image, is entirely political commentary, representing our opinion, not actual events. IF Biden chooses to announce a climate emergency, we expect this will be very close to what he will say.

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Tom Halla
August 21, 2023 5:08 am

Throwing virgins into volcanoes would be as effective for dealing with wildfires as “investing in clean energy”.

1saveenergy
Reply to  Tom Halla
August 21, 2023 6:41 am

That’s the cause of the ‘climate crises’ … not enough virgins !!

Rod Evans
Reply to  1saveenergy
August 21, 2023 7:28 am

Darn it, I knew I and my activities, would be implicated in the Climate Crisis eventually……

Reply to  Rod Evans
August 21, 2023 8:59 am

jeez groomers everywhere

Redge
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 9:52 am

Only on the climate warrior team

bnice2000
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 1:01 pm

The alarmistas are the ones using truant children with mental issues as their priestess.

The alarmistas are the ones grooming young children in infants school into their AGW cult.

MarkW
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 3:35 pm

It appears that the only mental skill steve has left, is projection.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 5:48 pm

What are “jeez groomers”? Oh, I see, lack of punctuation, failing to communicate effectively.

HotScot
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 22, 2023 1:55 am

Cobalt.

Creep.

Scissor
Reply to  1saveenergy
August 21, 2023 7:43 am

Never let a good/bad virgin go to waste.

ATheoK
Reply to  1saveenergy
August 21, 2023 8:27 am

Where would Biden find enough virgins?

Biden’s Administration would not be able to stop Biden(s) from changing their V status.

Slick Willie would soon be scampering over the horizon volunteering his aid.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  ATheoK
August 21, 2023 10:07 am

Recycle them by sending them to the Virgin Islands.

Gunga Din
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
August 21, 2023 12:00 pm

Would there be a length of residency requirement before they could reidentify?

paul courtney
Reply to  ATheoK
August 21, 2023 12:32 pm

Where would dems find virgins? As dems, they are flexible. If madonna and Brittany presented as virgins, who are we to question it?

Richard Page
Reply to  paul courtney
August 21, 2023 7:05 pm

Well Madonna has been ‘like a virgin’ since the 80’s.

Neo
Reply to  Tom Halla
August 22, 2023 9:03 am

They would mess that up and start throwing Virginians into volcanoes.

cilo
August 21, 2023 5:18 am

I was going to make a joke about marking your essay when the day comes, but how will they ever keep them er… excited kiddies away from Onkel Joe long enough for him to be this verbose?
…and you missed a couple of “…end of statement”s and “…pause”s.

karlomonte
August 21, 2023 5:41 am

“primed by the unprecedented effects of climate change”

Creepy Crooked Joe Bribem just can’t stop lying, spot on.

Robertvd
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 9:20 am

And then he and his entourage will take the fossil fueled Air Force One back home.

karlomonte
Reply to  Robertvd
August 21, 2023 4:49 pm

Confirmed.

DavsS
August 21, 2023 5:42 am

“…the brave residents of Maui,”

Given it’s Biden, it’s more likely he’d say

“…the brave residents of Malawi,”

barryjo
Reply to  DavsS
August 21, 2023 5:49 am

He has enough trouble with English words. Hawaiian should be very interesting.

Dan Davis
Reply to  DavsS
August 21, 2023 3:49 pm

Lahyena, Malawee



MB1978
August 21, 2023 6:42 am

Words is tools … in this case words that hides the truth. The speech is minus one and a quarter lessons when it comes to human ingenuity and engeering, the build back better nonsense between the lines is “horseshoe” chaos based on fear psychosis and the cult of safety that will save us “all”. Every ounce of innovations he say´s … if it wasn´t so tragic I would laugh my “heart” out … but a skeptical question comes to mind after have heard the speech, how many forensic arsonist and other sciencetist when it comes to adress the question about CC may I take with me to Maui – and will we be given the opportunity to adress and communicate the values of uncertainty and the values of freedom of thougths when it comes to science as Richard Feynman put it on the board.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  MB1978
August 21, 2023 5:50 pm

Words is tools”

Or maybe they are tools.

cilo
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
August 22, 2023 8:25 am

Not everyone’s’ sharp’s yo’s?

Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 6:45 am

You’re forgetting whose going to be giving this speech. It’ll probably come out something like this…

Ladies and gentlemen, members of the press, and most importantly, the brave residents of Molokai,

I stand before you today in the historic town of Lanina…Lanai…Lalaina, a place that was once the heart of Hawaiian culture, now tragically scarred by the inferno unleashed by… well, I better not say. I’ll get in trouble. The tragic events here on Mahina have not just affected a town or an island but have touched the very soul of our nation. The loss of over 1000 lives, millions of homes destroyed, history erased, and my memory turned to ash; these are not just headlines or … These are the heart-wrecking stories of your neighbors, your friends, and your family. I swear to God, we’d get up in the morning and there’d be oil on the windshield.

Unusually dry conditions, primed by the unprecedented effects of climate change, laid the groundwork for the wildfires we see today. People were left scrambling into the ocean, a desperate act of survival, because the very ground beneath their feet was on fire. Imagine that. And while the fires are uncontained for now, the broader flame, the burning issue of climate change, rages on unchecked beneath our feet.

For years, scientists and climate advocates have been shouting the alarm. The continuous explication of fossil fuels is not just an envirotental issue, but a ticking time bomb that threatens our way of life, our safety, and our very existence. Today, right here in Laguna, we’ve seen the devastation that this ticking bomb blown up in our face.

Kamala Ig..Ang..ingh, a voice of this community, pointlessly stated, “My island is on fire.” This sentiment is echoed across the world, as wildfires choke regions from Canada to Austria, heatwaves choke places like Texas and …, and extreme flooding drowns parts of Euroshire. It’s not just an island or a town; it’s a planet that’s on fire beneath our feet.

It is easy to revert to partisanship in moments of crisis, as those Ultra MAGA Republicans would do. But we’re better than that. We won’t blame the climate crisis we face today on those Ultra MAGA Republicans and their drill at any price solutions – We respect no borders, no parties, no ideologies.

I’ve taken steps to protect public lands, rejoined the Paris climate accordians, and have pushed for a progressive enviropotential agenda. But the scenes here, as economist Omar Hait…Hagar..Haque pointed out, that “practically” declaring a climate emergency is not enough. I’m here today to declare that it’s time for action, not just words.

Today, I want to make a commitment to the people of Mazanar and to all Americans: I will declare a national climate emergency when the time is right. Then we will marshal every resource, every piece of legislation, every ounce of indubitable spirit this nation possesses to fight the looming threat of climate change beneath our feet.

To the skeptics, deniers, and Ultra MAGA Republicans I urge you to come here, to see the devastation of Laquinta, to look into the eyes of those who’ve lost everything. This is not a theoretical debate for future generations. This is here. This is now. We can no longer afford to be on the sidelines, we must act eventually.

Thank you, and God bless the resitant people of Mali and the United States of Tempapreshurela.

ThinkingScientist
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 9:23 am

Euroshire.

LOL!

Bill Parsons
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 9:42 am

She’s not that smart.

Redge
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 9:56 am

Molokai

Molotov

Mike McMillan
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 10:44 am

Brilliant piece, Marbles!

gdtkona
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 1:41 pm

I am laughing out loud! Thank you. At the end of a busy day at work I needed that.

John Hultquist
August 21, 2023 7:01 am

The main emergency in the USA is the President and his Administration.
Dumping him now would put Harris in that role, a frying pan into the fire sort of move.
We are doomed, I tell you – doomed.
 Jason Chaffetz of Fox News just posted an opinion why he thinks Joe won’t run.

The co-authors of the (fake) speech have done a fine job, new careers await you!
I’ll bet two bits Joe could not read this without bungling it. Maybe wife Jill could.

Gunga Din
Reply to  John Hultquist
August 21, 2023 12:10 pm

Not so sure Jill wouldn’t mess it up.
She’d probably say something along the lines of, “I love my breakfast tacos with pineapple, but now all the pineapple fields are gone …”

Energywise
August 21, 2023 7:03 am

Joe, like all Western leaders, is just saying what the globalist elites want him to
They should issue a ‘loss of trust in our leaders emergency’ because that is real, unlike the manufactured climate debacle
They know they are losing the debate, so WEF bomber command has moved from nudge, to coercion
They will use any self proclaimed emergency powers to ride rough shod through democracy
It will be a shameful declaration of war on its own citizens, a war on personal freedoms and choices, that was secured by the millions who died fighting tyranny in two world wars

AlanJ
August 21, 2023 7:15 am

It’s odd that you’ve titled the post “EXCLUSIVE” and then only in footnotes mention that it is all fake. Is this an intentional effort to misinform people?

Peta of Newark
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 9:00 am

Hint: It’s an Intelligence Test……

ThinkingScientist
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 9:24 am

Surprised you noticed.

Gunga Din
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 9:37 am

Nice try.
The clearly labeled categories it falls under are “Commentary” and “Politics”.
What you refer to as a “footnote” was a “NOTE”.

Note: This entire post, including the posited speech and header image, is entirely political commentary, representing our opinion, not actual events. IF Biden chooses to announce a climate emergency, we expect this will be very close to what he will say.

If it was an attempt tointentional effort to misinform people”, there would have been no “Note”.

Duker
Reply to  Gunga Din
August 21, 2023 5:14 pm

It should have been at the beginning – Note this is satire not an actual speech of Biden

Much later the Update at the beginning …LOL… said it was an invented speech

Its been a month or more that WUWT has being ‘predicting ‘ Biden would declare a climate emergency …any day now

This is what the climate alarmists do. Fakery all the time

Redge
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 10:01 am

What follows is a likely speech (if Biden decides to do it), preemptively written by Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter.

Was ignoring the quote above an intentional effort to misinform people?

paul courtney
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 10:07 am

Mr. J: What is not odd is your overreach, to avoid the point of the post. You say a foot note, but you missed the bold statement above the “fake” part. Even Mr. Stokes was not so obtuse as to gaslight with this, so you can tell that to your grandkids (more obtuse than MR. O! you tell your grandkids). As Peta noted in his mercifully short post, you failed the intel test. You obviously don’t perceive what idiot posts like this do when we try to read you down the line.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 10:14 am

You just proved that alarmists and their apologists are humor challenged — or should I say, “impaired?”

AlanJ
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
August 22, 2023 6:32 am

I don’t think the post was meant to be funny (it was a very bad job of it if so), the point of the post was to stoke the fear of the site’s readership of their “climate emergency” bogeyman.

karlomonte
Reply to  AlanJ
August 22, 2023 7:24 am

You’re delusional.

antigtiff
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 11:27 am

Joey is a used car salesman…that’s his inventory behind him…..trust him that it’s a bargain.

michel
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 1:28 pm

Its a real problem. The level of insanity in genuine pronouncements by the woke on gender, race and climate is so great that when you write what you think is a wild parody, you end up just writing something which is quite plausibly something they might have written in all sincerity.

Its impossible to satirize the climate lunacy, almost any absurd and ridiculous thing you come up with is liable to be said in all sincerity by some activist the next day.

As with this piece, its all too plausible.

Editor
Reply to  michel
August 21, 2023 3:31 pm

My thoughts exactly, but expressed better. I thought, as I finished reading the proposed speech, that Joe Biden could use the entire speech unchanged and his accolytes would think it was his best speech ever.

SteveG
Reply to  michel
August 21, 2023 4:48 pm

Indeed. This speech is eerily spot on. Could be written by any number of anti-human, de-growth, totalitarian, globalist climate change zealots anywhere in the world.

bnice2000
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 1:35 pm

Poor AlanJ, trips and fails.,, landing face first in his own BS !

Hilarious. 🙂

Sunsettommy
Reply to  bnice2000
August 22, 2023 8:39 am

He is a Warmist/Alarmist that is why he is chronically clueless.

MarkW
Reply to  AlanJ
August 21, 2023 3:45 pm

What follows is a likely speech (if Biden decides to do it), preemptively written by Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter.

You didn’t bother to actually read the article, did you?

karlomonte
Reply to  MarkW
August 21, 2023 4:51 pm

“What, me worry?” — Alfred E. Newman

ssm59
August 21, 2023 7:30 am

We used to reset the failing monetary system with war. While that is not off the table completely,,$400 Tillion of sovereign debt would require a 50%+ reduction the population,, besides wars are a bit messy. Better instead to invoke a world wide invisible boogie man in Climate change, with a trial balloon of UFO/aliens. How better to get people to volunteer to get in the cattle cars than by convincing them its more dangerous to be outside.

Scissor
Reply to  ssm59
August 21, 2023 7:45 am

Democide is going strong. Were the past 3 years above the mean?

cilo
Reply to  ssm59
August 22, 2023 8:35 am

$400 Tillion of sovereign debt would require a 50%+ reduction the population

You seem like the kinda guy that causes me to contract beer-maths (1,2,many). Let me settle in, while you explain how debt requires genocide. I know you didn’t come up with that, but i keep asking, maybe one day I’ll hear an answer.

Rod Evans
August 21, 2023 7:36 am

Look on the bright side, when those Irish cows have all been culled and the farmers in Holland are ordered off the land by the EU’s starvation for all department, the people in Hawaii will be protected like never before. No more Irish butter giving them a risk of consuming something wholesome and healthy, and no more of that meat consumption giving rise to sound muscle and brain development.
The good people of Hawaii, can be assured the pointless policies of Climate Alarmists will always be there to do nothing for them.

alastairgray29yahoocom
Reply to  Rod Evans
August 21, 2023 7:59 am

Aloha Brandon will probably inform that his butt has been wiped

Peta of Newark
Reply to  alastairgray29yahoocom
August 21, 2023 9:02 am

Maybe, but first he had to notice that it needed wiping.

Scissor
August 21, 2023 8:05 am

There are several oddities concerning this catastrophe in Maui.

These two seem to be true. Many escaping residents in vehicles were funneled off the highway and onto Front street and then blocked in inhibiting their escape. Water that could have helped in fire fighting was held back. Fire hydrants went dry.

Steve Case
Reply to  Scissor
August 21, 2023 8:44 am

Fire hydrants on a relatively small city on the ocean went dry.

Google:”using seawater in fire hydrants”

Drake
Reply to  Steve Case
August 21, 2023 10:32 am

And your point is??

pflashgordon
Reply to  Drake
August 21, 2023 2:43 pm

An ocean of water mere feet away, but the fire fighters couldn’t find water in a major emergency.

Tony_G
Reply to  pflashgordon
August 21, 2023 4:09 pm

It’s not quite that easy, though.

Getting water from a body of water (i.e. lake, etc) requires a drafting operation. Most urban departments – places with hydrants – aren’t set up for that, and drafting at a beach, with the waves going like they do, would be very difficult if even possible.

Then there’s the potential damage to the pumps, both from the salt and from the sand. Debris in the water could break the pump during operation. THAT would be pretty bad…

Steve Case
Reply to  Tony_G
August 22, 2023 6:37 pm

Hmm, a permanent pumping station and a regular testing & maintenance program wouldn’t be that difficult to design.

Oh money fer dat? Yeah, but den we gots all a kindza moola fer wind terBINES ‘n soler panels don’t we?

Steve Case
Reply to  pflashgordon
August 23, 2023 6:42 pm

Maybe not the fire fighters, but someone couldn’t find their ass with both hands.

antigtiff
August 21, 2023 8:09 am

Is that Joey? ……or Robert L. Peters?…..or is it Robin Ware? In any case…FJB! Joey is finished…over….it is just a matter of exactly how he goes down…bye bye.

Mike McMillan
Reply to  antigtiff
August 21, 2023 10:50 am

I think his latest email alias is “Robin U. Craine”

Independent
August 21, 2023 8:09 am

FJB

DMacKenzie
August 21, 2023 8:11 am

Just sayin’, probably will get lots of downvotes….but it is unfortunate that “Climate science” has been politicized. Psychology, paleontology, biology, etc haven’t been (except where some link to CC is claimed).

Giving_Cat
Reply to  DMacKenzie
August 21, 2023 9:47 am

> “Climate science” has been politicized. Psychology, paleontology, biology, etc haven’t been…

Psych & Bio surely have been politicized in the ongoing parallel Gender Wars.

Gunga Din
Reply to  Giving_Cat
August 21, 2023 11:39 am

Psych went south back in the late 60’s to early ’70’s.

Redge
Reply to  DMacKenzie
August 21, 2023 10:05 am

Just sayin’, probably will get lots of downvotes but it is unfortunate that “Climate science” has been politicized. 

Why would your comment receive lots of downvotes?

It is a real shame climate science has been politicised, mostly by climate scientists and journalists.

MarkW
Reply to  DMacKenzie
August 21, 2023 3:59 pm

Psychology and biology haven’t been politicized?????

Just how many genders are there these days?
Have you not been reading about how Democrats want to make gender change surgery available to minors, without their parents knowledge?

As too paleontology, I remember a reviewer not too long ago who tried to have a paper rejected because it identified skeletons as male and female. According to the reviewer, this was not legitimate because we don’t know how those individuals would have self identified.

SteveG
Reply to  MarkW
August 21, 2023 4:53 pm

Biology >>> Pregnant Ken!

ATheoK
August 21, 2023 8:24 am

I will declare a national climate emergency.”

Words that mean, “I have not declared an emergency”.

August 21, 2023 8:58 am

his speach should mention that Dodger stdium floods were especially deep this year

Mumbles McGuirck
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 10:36 am

Damn that Hilary….

karlomonte
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 10:41 am

MAGA!

bnice2000
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 1:16 pm

Eng-Lit obviously doesn’t bother with spelling, either. !

MarkW
Reply to  bnice2000
August 21, 2023 4:03 pm

or capitalization or punctuation

Energywise
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 1:24 pm

You need a new keyboard Steven and a spellcheck app

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Energywise
August 21, 2023 6:22 pm

He needs a brain.

pflashgordon
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 3:10 pm

Rainfall totals in the LA basin were 2 to 3 inches. Woohoo. I’m impressed. Houston gets that on an ordinary spring or summer day. The highest recorded rainfall total (9.67”) appears to be a localized outlier. Most of the scattered max amounts were about 6” or less, largely in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests to the NE of major cities and towns.

I was watching the winds during the storm. Most places had sustained winds of 10-15 mph, with gusts to 25. Good kite weather were it not for the modest rainfall.

In the run-up to the storm, dire predictions abounded, including Mosher’s comment a couple of days back.The media and weather porn channels tried their best to call this an unprecedented disaster, which it was not, even if it had lived up to the hype. When it finally arrived, some locales had some flooding, especially mountain streams, but a disaster it wasn’t. Live storm chasers just showed water flowing (well below flood level) in the concrete lined Los Angeles River. The LA mayor says no deaths were reported.

SNORE! Isn’t it amazing that the predictions get all of the buzz, but everyone quickly forgets and moves on after the real event fails to deliver? Hmm, much like climate models versus actual data.

Tony_G
Reply to  pflashgordon
August 21, 2023 4:11 pm

Most places had sustained winds of 10-15 mph, with gusts to 25

That’s not even a decent Santa Ana…

Rich Davis
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 3:48 pm

Excellent! Only one capitalist letter, initial word lower case, two spelling errors, and a perfectly pristine lack of punctuation! Now THAT’S what we expect from a mosh comment.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Rich Davis
August 21, 2023 6:25 pm

And supposedly he wrote a book. I’m skeptical.

MarkW
Reply to  Steven Mosher
August 21, 2023 4:02 pm

A monsoon storm wandered unusually far west. Something that has happened at least 3 times in the last 100 years.

Nothing at all unusual. As usual.

Gunga Din
August 21, 2023 9:22 am

The picture needs a caption.
“Bidenomics is working!”

rah
August 21, 2023 9:27 am

Ha, the old geezer still hasn’t shown up at the East Palestine, OH train wreck site as he promised he would do.

Energywise
Reply to  rah
August 21, 2023 1:26 pm

He went to the West Bank, but couldn’t find a train anywhere

rah
August 21, 2023 9:42 am

No comment!

Giving_Cat
August 21, 2023 9:42 am

You forgot the promises. Rebuild better, sustainable, respect for the culture, fossil free community…

Mumbles McGuirck
Reply to  Giving_Cat
August 21, 2023 10:33 am

fossil free community

Only if that includes the Old Fossil in the Oval Office…

Clyde Spencer
August 21, 2023 10:05 am

The faux speech doesn’t seem very realistic. There was no mention of his eldest son dying while bravely trying to help future Democratic voters get passed the despicable ‘orange’ floating barrier, with high-speed saw blades, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River, and therefore calling for common-sense safety regulations on the use of high-caliber saw blades during this time of what is almost an unprecedented climate emergency.

(OK, I know it is in poor taste, but I couldn’t resist what is obviously a well-deserved ridiculing. If politicians can avoid slander because of their public status, they should be equally prepared to be criticized.)

Mumbles McGuirck
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
August 21, 2023 10:34 am

His son Beau died in a wildfire….

paul courtney
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
August 21, 2023 12:39 pm

A climate change wildfire, no less, killed Beau. In Iraq.

ResourceGuy
August 21, 2023 10:59 am

This is a perfect illustration of the usefulness of climate change/global warming for excuses and deflection. If only White Star Lines had had climate change as an excuse for the sinking of the Titanic.

ResourceGuy
August 21, 2023 11:00 am

Somebody give another drink with those little parasols to Mike Mann.

Bill Parsons
August 21, 2023 11:34 am

Thanks… and God save the Queen, man!

Gunga Din
Reply to  Bill Parsons
August 21, 2023 12:15 pm

I’d forgotten about that little Bidenism!

Bill Parsons
Reply to  Bill Parsons
August 21, 2023 2:29 pm

Our admenstration has today decided to take this bold step. Even here, in the tropical Hawaiian paradise, you may see how global warming has brought catastrophe. Vice President Harriot and I will deploy all the powers of the federum government to see that the ravages of climate change are stopped in its tracks. In their tracks. We will not stop the creeping global monster by acting in stits and farts… fits and tarts… tits… Instead we will go all in. Right, Camillion? Gimme five.

Simon
August 21, 2023 12:58 pm

Biden wont ever match the guy before him when it comes to this stuff. He should watch and learn how you ease the pain of people in your care who have been through hell……

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 1:02 pm

Get professional help for your TDS, Bidenista.

Simon
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 1:24 pm

Classic. So Biden is fair game here, (and I get it that is the way politics works) but if I criticise Trump then it’s TDS? Huh? Do you ever look in a mirror?

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 2:42 pm

Mirror would start oozing fetid crud if you looked in it. !

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 4:55 pm

TDS Simon! What about drinking “bleach”!

Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah!

Mr.
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 1:16 pm

I see the audience laughing, smiling and taking pictures.

So obviously the paper towels were well received.

Biden would have comprehending his cue card, which would read –

YOU pick up a roll of paper towel.
YOU stretch your arm back, with the roll still in YOUR hand.
YOU throw the towel towards the audience.
YOU pick up another towel and wipe the dribble off YOUR mouth.

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 2:37 pm

Poor little Slimon, complains about Donald Trump helping out the community.

And giving the crowd a bit of laughter and fun while doing it, lifting their spirits.

What a sad little piece of worthless human crud Slimon is.

MarkW
Reply to  bnice2000
August 21, 2023 4:09 pm

Like the rest of the cult, even Simon has come to realize that Biden can no longer be defended.

Gunga Din
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 2:48 pm

Zero context to that clip. Zero words Trump said before or after.
Of course, this post and “speech” did not pretend to be Biden’s actual words, but we have lots of his actual goofs and “fabrications” on video with audio and in context. (Some going back decades)
The only thing not laughable about Brandon is that he’s ever been in office.

Simon
Reply to  Gunga Din
August 21, 2023 3:52 pm

Of course, this post and “speech” did not pretend to be Biden’s actual words, but we have lots of his actual goofs and “fabrications” on video with audio and in context. (Some going back decades)”
Fair point. So you would like me to show some of Trump’s gaffs? OK… If you can bare to watch this, it is bloody funny.

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 4:29 pm

Big difference that even a one-eyed simpleton should realise…

Trump knows what he is talking about and occasionally stumbles on a word here or there.

Biden is totally clueless what he is talking about basically all the time.

In most cases his whole speech is one big gaff after another.

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 4:57 pm

Your lying hero at work — “That laptop is Russian disinformation!”

MarkW
Reply to  Gunga Din
August 21, 2023 4:10 pm

Like most socialists, there is nothing Simon hates more than other people being successful.

MarkW
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 4:08 pm

Trump’s doing more for those people than Biden ever did.

Simon
Reply to  MarkW
August 21, 2023 4:09 pm

Trumps doing more for those people than Biden ever did.”
In your opinion…. And you know what I think of your opinion.

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 4:32 pm

Biden is making life worse for everyone except the elite… purposely !

He is constantly work against the USA.

Trump tried to work for his country and the people in it.

It is really sad and pathetic that you cannot tell the difference.

karlomonte
Reply to  bnice2000
August 21, 2023 5:00 pm

Biden is guilty of treason.

Simon
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 5:13 pm

Proof please????

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 5:17 pm

Request DENIED.

Simon
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 11:06 pm

Haha…. what you mean is you have none…

Simon
Reply to  bnice2000
August 21, 2023 5:14 pm

Biden is making life worse for everyone except the elite… purposely !”
BS for starters, unemployment at lowest for decades. Stock market doing fine.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 6:31 pm

Unemployment is low because a lot of people stopped looking for work. Inflation is still high. Gas prices are WAY high.

Simon
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
August 21, 2023 10:58 pm

Gas prices on the way down. Inflation down. Growth way ahead of projections. Sorry, but if you think you are getting Biden on the economy then you are going to be barking up the wrong tree.

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 12:30 am

Do you get paid for posting this dreck?

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 6:40 pm

Highest inflation rate in 4 decades.

Cost of everything climbing fast.

Low-income earners being hit hardest

Even mid-income feeling the pinch.

Data show the average American worker’s wages were effectively reduced over $4.50 an hour last month via the hidden tax of inflation.

The consumer price index for June showed prices rose 3% over the last year. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was 4.8%.

Prices rose 1.4% over the entire year before Mr. Biden took office. Eighteen months later, prices were rising about that fast in a single month.

Inflation remains more than twice what it was when Mr. Biden became president, and prices have already risen 16% during his term.

This is devastating for the average American worker.

On top of that, continued talks of a recession in the US.

Yep Biden wreck-enomics is going great !

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 8:44 am

Gee no one defends being on topic anymore……., but here is a question YOU can pretend to answer,

Where is the Climate Emergency?

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
August 22, 2023 6:38 pm

Where is the Climate Emergency?”
Don’t ask me, ask Hawaii. Ask Canada. Ask China. Ask the US. Ask NZ. Ask Greece. Ask Mexico…. We have had a truck load of climate disasters this year. But hey no problem, just keep denying. That’s what deniers do.

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 8:03 pm

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

No one here is denying bad weather events which is what you are LYINGLY claiming about what climate realists thinks which is what all warmist/alarmists does every day is lie about it is a never-ending red herring stupidity you people produce 24/7.

There is no increasing trend in wildfires according to NASA, No increased trend in Tropical storm or hurricanes duration or prevalence according to ACE and the NOAA.

Many of the fires in Greece were started by arsonists.

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
August 22, 2023 8:43 pm

Bwahahahahahaha yourself.

The prevalence and severity of the climate incidents in 2023 is undeniable unless of course you are are a denier. You can dismiss it all with a lame meaningless comment like “No one here is denying bad weather events.” It’s like “no one here denies people die, so lets’ not worry about heart disease.” A rather dishonest misdirection don’t you think?
We don’t have the data because 2023 is not over yet, but I’m picking this year will be a standout for weather related disasters.

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 23, 2023 10:45 am

Yet again you ignored several climate metrics I mentioned because you don’t know how to find them, just last year it was a 42-year LOW for Tropical storm energy which is known to anyone who likes to look up the data.

Now you suddenly talk about one year alone which isn’t a climate metric thus you end up with just a few weather events to cry over.

You keep saying denier yet you can’t come up with a single instance of anyone denying 2023 weather events.

You are pathetic.

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 5:00 pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/joe-biden-begins-his-speech-maui-bringing-up/

After getting booed by the locals, Dementia Man went straight to mindless yapping about his dead son (as predicted here).

Then he went back on “vacation” burning tons of evil fossil fuel.

Simon
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 5:15 pm

Gateway pundit. Do you read any real news?

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 6:42 pm

“any real news?”

Says the gruniad apostle.

How ironic…

And of course, totally unable to counter the facts stated.

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 7:13 pm

So he didn’t booed?

Is this what you are claiming?

bnice2000
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 6:47 pm

Good thing there were no young girls there…

“oh”., says Jo Dementia… “your hair smells smoky” !

Simon
Reply to  bnice2000
August 21, 2023 11:02 pm

Good thing there were no young girls there…”
You really walk into these don’t you. Everything Biden does wrong Trump does worse….

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 11:53 pm

Not young girls. And since when have Democrats been such prudes.

Certainly cannot understand a joke or humour.

Biden likes them pre-pubescent, just like you do.

The really creepy one is that first harpy talking…. Far left democrat, correct !

Simon
Reply to  bnice2000
August 22, 2023 2:08 am

Biden likes them pre-pubescent, just like you do.”
What a silly man you are.

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 2:15 am

Thank for validating what we already knew..

You really don’t like being exposed as the immoral creep that you are, do you.

karlomonte
Reply to  Simon
August 21, 2023 5:04 pm

Here is what they think of your hero in Nebraska (thnx to Seth Keshel):

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karlomonte
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 5:06 pm

Here’s some more:

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K.F.Smith
Reply to  karlomonte
August 22, 2023 9:49 am

I’m seeing worse, here in Bucks County, PA. “F**K Joe Biden” banners, in some yards.

The mood in America is ugly, and getting uglier.

I guess we shouldn’t expect otherwise, when parents are forced to put up with pedophiles in the White House, and public schools.

karlomonte
Reply to  K.F.Smith
August 22, 2023 11:58 am

Correct. Just the other day in deep blue Colorado I saw a guy wearing a nice polo shirt monogramed with the exact same inscription.

Simon
Reply to  K.F.Smith
August 22, 2023 12:59 pm

I’m seeing worse, here in Bucks County, PA. “F**K Joe Biden” banners”
WHAT? They swear in Bucks county. Are there no morals in the US?

bnice2000
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 1:46 pm

You are the very last worm that should be talking about morality. !

Simon
Reply to  bnice2000
August 22, 2023 5:20 pm

You are the very last worm that should be talking about morality.”
Says the man with the moral fibre of a turd…. I mean you don’t know me from Adam yet you stoop to implying I’m a pedo. That’s pretty low even for you.

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 22, 2023 8:08 pm

When the half unconscious man is still in office embarrassing the nation in front of the world with his endless warmongering and economic militancy attacks that drives many nations against America because of the IMMORAL murderous government attacks on them via the CIA, Proxy wars and being the world largest arms dealer.

Your ignorance was stamped on your small head from day 1 in kindergarten which you never overcame.

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
August 23, 2023 2:55 am

If you bothered to read what I have written or knew what you were talking about, you would know about I think Biden is well past being let go. We need new blood in the White house. So you can shove your ill informed sneering comment up your arse. I mean that nicely

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 23, 2023 10:52 am

I was only pointing out that Biden is a terrible president nothing more yet that bothered you a lot and that you LIED since there is nothing before your latest comment talking about Biden needs to go home while you made originally unprovoked attacks on Trump who left the White House 3 1/2 years ago.

You have been defending Biden the entire time here stop being this stupid.

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
August 24, 2023 12:06 am

Biden is not great, but he is still light years ahead of Trump as a president. I would like him to stand down. I can’t see him lasting the distance from here. I’ve said this several times on WUWT, maybe not on this thread. But I also think it important to be honest about his performance and the economy is doing a hell of a lot better that was expected even a year ago. That is just a fact that should be acknowledged. The US is also doing way better than most first world countries. The UK is in a terrible mess (conservative Government) as is China.

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Simon
August 24, 2023 8:30 am

Your delusions are your prison.

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
August 24, 2023 12:40 pm

Speaking of prison…..

mews
August 21, 2023 12:59 pm

The real cause of wildfires, gaslighting by climate alarmists.

ResourceGuy
Reply to  mews
August 21, 2023 2:06 pm

Good one!

Izaak Walton
August 21, 2023 2:31 pm

So just to be clear. After spending several weeks pushing the false theory that the UN and President Biden would declare a climate emergency, the next obvious step is to pretend that it happened, make a speech by President Biden and then let everybody make fun of it. But of course none of this is “fake news”.

Gunga Din
Reply to  Izaak Walton
August 21, 2023 2:56 pm

The disclaimers were clear.
The “fake news” contain no disclaimers.

MarkW
Reply to  Gunga Din
August 21, 2023 4:12 pm

Those in the climate cult have lost the ability to distinguish reality from fiction.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  MarkW
August 21, 2023 8:54 pm

Probably one of the defining characteristics of a liberal.

pflashgordon
Reply to  Izaak Walton
August 21, 2023 3:17 pm

C’mon man, get a sense of humor.

karlomonte
Reply to  pflashgordon
August 21, 2023 5:01 pm

Not possible.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Izaak Walton
August 21, 2023 8:53 pm

It isn’t “fake news” unless it is presented as being true, when it isn’t. That is different from ridicule!

Why is a bloody limey defending our national albatross?

Independent
Reply to  Izaak Walton
August 22, 2023 8:42 am

“We have no intention to ban gas stoves.”
“Two weeks to slow the spread.”
“We were always at war with Eurasia.”

Sunsettommy
Reply to  Izaak Walton
August 22, 2023 8:47 am

The fake news was all from the leftist media side which was picked up by other outside the fake news media cabal.

K.F.Smith
August 21, 2023 4:22 pm

My first post on this great site. Can’t resist this one. The comments in this thread contain some of the dumbest posts by liberals that I’ve encountered. The authors intent appears to have whizzed right past these individuals. They must feel quite embarrassed right now.

How could they miss it?

Before the “speech”:

“What follows is a likely speech (if Biden decides to do it), preemptively written by Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter.”

After the “speech”:

“Note: This entire post, including the posited speech and header image, is entirely political commentary, representing our opinion, not actual events. IF Biden chooses to announce a climate emergency, we expect this will be very close to what he will say.”

Good grief. No wonder the libs can’t figure out what sex they are.

cilo
Reply to  K.F.Smith
August 22, 2023 8:47 am

Some blokes come home and kick the cat. We pour a coffee and respond to Nick Stokes and Izaak Walton…
Harmless fun, you shoulda been around for ole Griff. He elicited responses that reminded me of that time in Panoohanki, civil war. It was four against forty, gads did we whip those four dorks!

karlomonte
August 21, 2023 4:48 pm

Four results (story tips from The Gateway Pundit so TrollYouSo will have something to whine about):

Top Biden Spox: Joe Biden Will Make Sure That He Communicates to Maui Residents That He Has “Been There Since Day One”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/top-biden-spox-joe-biden-will-make-sure/

Washington Democrat Governor Inslee: “We Need to Decarbonize Our Economy so These Fires Don’t Ravage Us”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/washington-democrat-governor-inslee-we-need-decarbonize-our/

“He’s Too Late” – Maui Residents Line the Street to Protest Joe Biden’s Arrival
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/hes-too-late-maui-residents-line-street-protest/

Joe Biden Begins His Speech in Maui By Bringing Up the Death of His First Wife and Daughter
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/joe-biden-begins-his-speech-maui-bringing-up/

And then Creepy Crooked Joe Bribem hopped back into his huge jet and burned lots of Jet-A to go back to “vacation” after saving the planet.

Duker
Reply to  karlomonte
August 21, 2023 5:17 pm

Its a small Air Force One , the 757

How do you expect him to get their ? Its Maui ISLAND

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Duker
August 21, 2023 6:50 pm

Rowboat. Outrigger canoe, just like the natives.

SteveG
August 21, 2023 4:57 pm

The speech is too long for sleepy Joe. He’ll just pass out before he gets to the declaration..

Edward Katz
August 21, 2023 6:11 pm

We shouldn’t worry too much about whether there’s any climate emergency or not because even Britain’s The Guardian, one of the world’s worst alarmist rags, has conceded that trying to control the climate is a losing battle because no one’s really trying that hard in the first place. It claims that even though there has been somewhat of a phase-out of old coal plants worldwide, the pace of it would have to be 4.5 times faster than it currently is for all of them to be retired by 2040. Meanwhile world coal consumption rose to new records the last two years and is likely to continue in 2023. So what they’re admitting here is that even if there is a climate crisis, we’d just better be prepared to live with it.

Pat Frank
August 21, 2023 6:28 pm

I just listened to a conversation between Robert Kennedy jr and Edward Dowd about the Lahaina fire.

Apparently horrifically intense heat killed some folks outright and drove others into the water.

It appears that the worst of it can be chalked up to long-standing official incompetence.

For those who don’t know, Dowd is the guy who first alerted the public to the large death-toll associated with the mRNA shots.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Pat Frank
August 21, 2023 9:01 pm

It appears that the worst of it can be chalked up to long-standing official incompetence.

Not uncommon in Democrat-controlled cities and states. Look at what is happening to San Francisco! I’m a California expat that had the option to return to California when I retired. I chose not to when the time came. The Midwest isn’t all that bad with air conditioning.

Neo
Reply to  Pat Frank
August 22, 2023 7:21 am

Governor of Hawaii:
-We didn’t manage the unnatural savanna from fallow plantations.
-We didn’t use our emergency alert system.
-We didn’t use any water to fight the fire until it was too late.
-The electrical grid was poorly maintained.
-Described his desire to clame the destroyed land for his own agenda BEFORE he even knew of the devastation.

…but yeah, Climate Change. These people are evil.

Q: “Are you saying that climate change amplified the cost of human error [during Maui wildfires]?” HAWAII GOV. GREEN: “Yes, it did.”
https://twitter.com/TimOnPoint/status/1693589989412549073

karlomonte
August 21, 2023 9:34 pm

More Uncle Joe in Maui:

HE’S SHOT: A Confused Joe Biden, Mouth Agape, Has to Be Guided Away From Podium After Maui Speech

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/hes-shot-confused-joe-biden-mouth-agape-has/

SICK! Joe Biden Lies About His House Burning Down to Maui Wildfire Victims, “I Almost Lost my ’67 Corvette and My Cat”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/sick-joe-biden-lies-about-his-house-burning/

Neo
Reply to  karlomonte
August 22, 2023 7:19 am

One Maui resident called him worthy of a “Walmart greeter”.
Clearly, Walmart greeters are more worthy.

ozspeaksup
August 22, 2023 6:43 am

I knew that A : you were too coherent
B; not offensive enough
and heres brandon to show you just how crass he is yet again

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431209/Hawaii-fires-Joe-Biden-tour-joke-damage-deaths.html

Neo
August 22, 2023 7:16 am

Clearly, your model statement gave Joe Biden the benefit of the doubt.
His actually speech was a disaster, as he brought up a case where he “nearly lost his Corvette” to a fire caused by a lightning strike near his home. The jokes he used were “tone deaf”.

slowroll
Reply to  Neo
August 22, 2023 9:45 am

A bit like a person complaining about their finger arthritis to “empathize” with a terminal cancer patient.

K.F.Smith
Reply to  Neo
August 22, 2023 9:55 am

Yeah, Pedophile Joe, pretending he’s one of the guys, telling people who’ve just had their lives ruined how he almost lost his classic Corvette.

The most hated person in America doing what he does best: making people hate him more.

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